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It was but recently that a writer in the New York Times declared Poe to have been “grub-staked by demons.” The story “Bon-Bon” offers a specimen of Poe’s grimly grotesque humour. It first appeared in the Broadway Journal of August, 1835. The devil of this most un-American of all American authors is not the child of New World fancy, but part of European imagination.
"I can't tell you much about it," was the reply, "and I wouldn't git too interested, if I was you. It might not be healthy. All I know is that one time my partner and I were in hard luck. We got grub-staked, and went out prospectin'. We strayed into a wild part of the country about sixty mile from here, and one night we camped on a mountain a wild, desolate place it was too."
"If you must go, I'll stake you in the hunt for gold." In the end "Nopper" consented to follow Brewster's advice, and it was agreed that they should share equally all that resulted from his prospecting tour. Brewster "grub-staked" him for a year, and before the end of the week a new tenderfoot was on his way to the Rocky Mountains. Harrison's departure left Brewster in sore straits.
He come from some Eastern college and his pa had grub-staked him to a kit of tools and sent him out here to work his way into the confidences and cavities of the Idahobos. "Well, sir, the minute I seen him I realized he was my custard. He wore sofy cushions on his shoulders, and his coat was cut in at the back.
"Why, Frenchy said Doc had her cured!" Jack Saunders claimed she had rode to Box Elder with Lin McLean. "Dead? Why, pshaw!" "Seems Doc couldn't swim her out." "Couldn't swim her out?" "That's it. Doc couldn't swim her out." "Well there's one less of us." "Sure! She was one of the boys." "She grub-staked me when I went broke in '84." "She gave me fifty dollars onced at Lander, to buy a saddle."
But his ragged companion turned suddenly, and while the sparks fell in a fresh shower, "Well, Captain," says he, "you've got the chance of your life right now." "Ten and a half." "Just what they've all said. Wish I had the money I've wasted on grub-stakin'." The ragged one thrust his hands in the pockets of his chaparejos. "I grub-staked myself, and I'm very glad I did." "Nobody in with you?"
Kenny, remembered Whitaker, had searched with tragic eyes for an invited editor who had recklessly agreed to pay in advance for an excursion of Kenny's into illustrating, ostensibly to pay for a cow. And Kenny's words had been: "My God, Whitaker! Where's Graham?" Moreover he had struck himself fiercely on the forehead and Whitaker had grub-staked his host to provisions until Graham arrived.
"He has gone through his wife's fortune, in addition to squandering a good little chunk that his father left him. And you've grub-staked 'em both to this! Well, never mind; it's a back number, now, and you have given me your word for it. Don't worry about the money you are going to need for the honeymoon. There is plenty in the bank in my account, if there isn't any in yours."
He said the manuscript was long, but if it was necessary to abridge in making up the magazine, why had they thrown out the finest part of the story?" "Let me see," said the attorney thoughtfully, "wasn't Weatherbee the name of the man you grub-staked in Alaska, and who discovered the Aurora mine?"
A prospector he had grub-staked, found the Oro Cruz, one of the richest mines in the Tubacca hills. Rennie owned two freighting lines, one carrying goods to California, the other up from Sonora. And his headquarters in the fertile Santa Cruz Valley was a ranch which was also a fort, a fort even the Apaches avoided after they had suffered two overwhelming defeats there.
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